gf-core

GF Resource grammar library, v. 0.6.

To precompile a test suite:

  gf <mkTest.gfs

To precompile resource syntaxes and paradigms:

  gf <mkParadigms.gfs

To test multilingual syntax editing:

  jgf TestAll.gfcm

Modules to use (open) for a given language X:

  ResourceX     -- basic resource API
  ParadigmsX    -- morphological paradigms

API documentation found in

  Combinations  -- syntactic categories and combination rules
  Structural    -- structural words
  ParadigmsX    -- parameter types and morphological paradigms

Known bugs:

Finnish
  Numerals (1,2,3,...) are not inflected

French
  Order of clitics with ditransitives is not fully controlled

Italian
  Order of clitics with ditransitives is not fully controlled


General
  * Negative noun phrases ("nobody", "nothing", etc) in TestResource are
  not treated adequately. For instance, in French
  the negation word "pas" appears even if "rien" or "personne" is present.
  * The numeral 1 is not treated  specially in "these 1 are old" etc


Missing structures
  * Tense and aspect
  * "I want you to go"
  * "I paint the house blue"
  " "the house that he wants to buy"



Document last updated August 3, 2004, by Aarne Ranta.